Description of problem: SELinux prevented kde4-config from writing ./.kde Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I have no clue. I have not used kde since reloading Fc10 (I have Fc11 now). I use the supposedly more stable Gnome now only. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Summary: SELinux prevented kde4-config from writing ./.kde. Detailed Description: SELinux prevented kde4-config from writing ./.kde. If ./.kde is a core file, you may want to allow this. If ./.kde is not a core file, this could signal a intrusion attempt. Allowing Access: Changing the "allow_daemons_dump_core" boolean to true will allow this access: "setsebool -P allow_daemons_dump_core=1." Fix Command: setsebool -P allow_daemons_dump_core=1 Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 Target Objects ./.kde [ dir ] Source kde4-config Source Path /usr/bin/kde4-config Port <Unknown> Host localhost.localdomain Source RPM Packages kdelibs-4.2.3-2.fc10 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.5.13-61.fc10 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name allow_daemons_dump_core Host Name localhost.localdomain Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed May 20 23:10:16 EDT 2009 i686 i686 Alert Count 3 First Seen Sun 21 Jun 2009 12:38:02 PM EDT Last Seen Sun 21 Jun 2009 01:34:48 PM EDT Local ID 8d70bfb1-ba92-4955-ad6f-ba3080ff42e4 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1245605688.262:6): avc: denied { create } for pid=3092 comm="kde4-config" name=".kde" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 tclass=dir node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1245605688.262:6): arch=40000003 syscall=39 success=no exit=-13 a0=9d22df8 a1=1c0 a2=23ad950 a3=1 items=0 ppid=3091 pid=3092 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="kde4-config" exe="/usr/bin/kde4-config" subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
This is bug 504209, which has the same cause as bug 498809 and thus got closed as a duplicate of that one. Those got fixed on June 15, 2009 in both Fedora 10 and 11. It is no use reporting bugs months after you saw them, without any clue as to whether they even still apply. And if that bug is the reason for you calling KDE "unstable", well it is fixed now (and it was always harmless). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498809 ***